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Dalgyal Gwishin

A dalgyal gwishin is a faceless, undead spirit that wears a stone mask. This forlorn undead forms from the soul of a mortal who died a lonely death with no one to remember them, and is similarly unable to remember what it looked like in life. A dalgyal gwishin wanders the land of the living in search of any trace of who they were when they were alive. Full of anger, they remain envious of well-loved or famous individuals who are surrounded by close friends and admirers—the type of people who would never share the dalgyal gwishin's fate.

While a dalgyal gwishin has little more than a ghostly body made of mist, the featureless stone mask it wears on its head is solid. Even the stolen faces it claims are transitory, cracking off after a day to form what looks akin to a fragile porcelain death mask. Some of these lonely spirits keep these masks and add them to a collection in a remote and forlorn lair, hoping to find companionship in an ever-growing display of silent faces.

Recall Knowledge - Undead (Religion): DC 22
Unspecific Lore: DC 20
Specific Lore: DC 17

Elite | Normal | Weak
Proficiency without Level

Changes from being Elite are marked in red below.
NOTE: The +2 damage bonus to non-strike offensive abilities (+4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.

Elite Dalgyal GwishinCreature 6

Legacy Content

Uncommon CE Medium Incorporeal Undead 
Source Pathfinder #197: Let the Leaves Fall pg. 83
Perception +14; lifesense (precise) 120 feet, no vision
Languages Common, Necril; can't speak any language, telepathy 120 feet
Skills Acrobatics +15, Intimidation +14, Stealth +15
Str -5, Dex +4, Con +2, Int +0, Wis +3, Cha +3
Lifesense The dalgyal gwishin senses the vital essence of living and undead creatures within the listed range.
AC 23; Fort +11, Ref +17, Will +14
HP 78 (negative healing); Immunities death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, precision, unconscious; Resistances all 5 (except force, ghost touch, or positive; double resistance vs. non-magical)
Frightful Presence (aura, emotion, fear, mental) 30 feet, DC 21Stone-Faced While the dalgyal gwishin has no physical body, its stone face is solid. It can't pass through solid objects.
Speed fly 40 feet
Melee [one-action] head +14 [+9/+4] (finesse, magical), Damage 2d6+2+2 bludgeoning plus 2d6+2 mentalJealous Frenzy [reaction] (divine, enchantment, mental) Trigger The dalgyal gwishin Strikes a creature that has a higher Charisma modifier than itself; Frequency once per day; Effect The dalgyal gwishin enters an envious frenzy as it senses strong ties of friendship and personality within the creature it struck. The dalgyal gwishin becomes quickened 1 but can only use its quickened action to Strike the triggering creature. If the dalgyal gwishin fails to Strike the triggering creature at least once during its turn, Jealous Frenzy ends. It also ends after 1 minute. After Jealous Frenzy ends, the dalgyal gwishin is slowed 1 for 1 minute.Peel Face [reaction] (divine, necromancy) Trigger The dalgyal gwishin critically hits a creature or reduces a creature to 0 Hit Points while in a Jealous Frenzy; Effect The dalgyal gwishin presses its stony face to the creature's face, causing a ghostly imprint of that face to peel away and duplicate onto its head. The triggering creature must succeed at a DC 24 Will save or become stupefied 1 (stupefied 2 on a critical failure). The dalgyal gwishin's Jealous Frenzy ends, and it doesn't become slowed.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Faceless Horror

The dalgyal gwishin's most significant physical trait—the lack of a face—is shared with the living aberrations known as noppera-bos. Despite this shared feature and the ability to steal faces, the two creatures don't cooperate and are more often bitter enemies. Anyone slain by a dalgyal gwishin leaves behind an unnerving faceless corpse